Monti Guarnieri - Politecnico di Milano

CCI+ future activities:
measuring water vapor, soil moisture
Andrea
ASI – July 19th 2016
Andrea Monti-Guarnieri, Fabio Rocca,
and GeoSTARe team:
Keith
Thomas
Rosa
Simonetta
Kostas
Nazareno
Eric
Gianluca
Andrea
Dorita
Eugenio
Salvatore
Stefano
Toshitaka
Giovanna
Khang
Geoff
Morrison
Nagler
Pacione
Paloscia
Papathanassiou
Pierdicca
Pottier
Readelli
Recchia
Rostkier-Edelstein
Sansosti
Stramondo
Tebaldini
Tsuda
Venuti
Vu Tien
Wadge
Cranfield University
ENVEO
EGEOS-SPA
CNR-IFAC
DLR
Università la Sapienza
Université of Rennes 1
CETEMPS
Aresys
IIBR
CNR-IREA
INGV
Politecnico di Milano
RISH
Politecnico di Milano
SES (retired)
University of Reading
UK
AU
IT
IT
DE
IT
FR
IT
IT
IL
IT
IT
IT
JP
IT
LU
UK
Gideon
Joan
Ornella
Giorgio
Isabella
Antoni
MontiGuarnieri*
Baer
Bech
Bombaci
Boni
Bordi
Broquetas
Roland
Bürgmann
Geological Survey of Israel
Universitat de Barcelona
Thales Alenia Space Italia
Cima Research Foundation
CINFAI
Universitat
Politècnica
Catalunya
University of California
JeanChristophe
Nicola
Fabio
Marco
Stephen
Dara
Calvet
Météo-France/CNRM
Casagli
Castelli
Chini
English
Entekhabi
Università degli studi di Firenze
Università degli studi di Firenze
LIST
ECMWF
MIT
Alessandro
Rossella
Laurent
Fabrizio
Gianfranco
Davide
Ramon
Steven
Ferretti
Ferretti
Ferro-Famil
Ferrucci
Fornaro
Giudici
Hanssen
Hobbs
TRE
Danish Meteorological Institute
Université of Rennes 1
The Open University
CNR-IREA
Aresys
Delft University of Technology
Cranfield University
IT
IT
LU
UK
US
A
IT
DK
FR
UK
IT
IT
NL
UK
Riccardo
Lanari
CNR-IREA
IT
Francisco
Lopez
Dekker
Marzano
Matgen
Mattia
Moreira
DLR
DE
Università la Sapienza
LIST
ISSIA
DLR
IT
LU
IT
DE
Frank
Patrick
Francesco
Alberto
Politecnico di Milano
IT
IL
ES
IT
IT
IT
de ES
US
A
FR
CCI+ ECV: water vapor and soil moisture
Water-vapor: needs & gaps
Source: Dr. Steven English, ECMWF
GeoSTARe EE-9 proposal
SAR: water vapour measures at fine time-space scale
1st «fine» resolution (space)
Atmospherric Phase Screen form SAR
[Ferretti et al 2000]
Animation of the atmospheric-river event. Dec. 18-20, 2010.
Image Credit: Anthony Wimmers and Chris Velden, University
of Wisconsin-CI
Sentinel1-A 12-days interferogram phase
Continuous fine resolution measures of water-vapor
from space: GeoSTARe (C-band)
 Super-continental access
 24 hours continuous observations
 Real time data download & exploitation
 Long lasting (15 years)
Sat. Orbit
Resolution: 500×500 m @0.17 hg/m² PWV
Resolution 1.8 × 1.8 km @0.06 m³/m³ SM
(~100 km)
15 mins
2 hours
Conclusions
GeoSTARe is a unique mission to measure water vapour and
possibly soil moisture (co-located) with fine time/space resolution
It has been proposed by 45 scientists (+ technicians), from 34
institutions as next EE-9
Given the high innovation and challenging features, we expect from
the board an evaluation to identify costs-benefits, show-stoppers
and perspectives
Preparatory activites, studies and demonstrations are needed, for
both water-vapor (+integration in meteo-models) and soil moisture